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Get the Summary of Yiyun Li's Things in Nature Merely Grow in 20 minutes. Yiyun Li's Things in Nature Merely Grow (2025) is a raw and unflinching exploration of the grief that followed the suicides of her two sons, Vincent and James-seven years apart. Li turned to language, philosophy, and music to make sense of life after unimaginable loss. Though she's a writer, she grappled with the inadequacy of language to express it. Still, she was able to write Things in Nature Merely Grow for James. It's not a story of healing or closure. It is a testament to the enduring power of love and memory, an honest account of living with profound loss. Li accepts the continuous "now" of her grief, a permanent state of both beginning and end, where life persists in the shadow of loss...